fbpanel dies. was: [debian] zhone not working

[arne anka]

On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:08:57 +0100, <jeffrey.ratcliffe at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 2, 2009 2:00pm, arne anka <openmoko at ginguppin.de> wrote:
>> uh. what does the while loop mean? anyone knows?
>> what happens, when you comment the while loop and simply put
>> fbpanel
>> there?
>
> It allows you to reconfigure the window manager, kill it with
>
> killall fbpanel
>
> and see the results immediately


good lord!
wouldn't it be more sensible to use a better wm, like xfce or lxde?
i don't know fbpanel, but maybe it has some options to enable verbosity?  
oh, and check ~/.xession-errors for informative messages.